Computer glitch - " Denied seats, group holds overbooked flight hostage "

Mumbai: It was a wedding party of 80, booked to fly by an early morning Jet Airways flight from Mumbai to Bhopal. Going by social media accounts, they virtually held the airline hostage, forcing it to delay the departure and deplane other passengers to make way for the late-comers among them. Details of the events that unfolded at Mumbai airport on Friday , as Jet readied its flight 9W7083 for a 5.55 am departure, were gleaned from an FB post and subsequently confirmed by the airline. According… (epaperbeta.timesofindia.com) Plus d'info...